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Part 2: Docker Containers and graceful shutdown Part 1: Signals and Linux Part 2: Containers and signals Part 3: Graceful shutdown of K8S pods [you’re here] Part 4: Django and Gunicorn [WIP] Part 5: Celery [WIP] Part 6: Other frameworks and libraries [WIP] Intro The previous chapter was difficult, and I assumed things would get easier along the way. Little did I know. Instead of discussing the actual graceful shutdown topic, this post will focus more on the overview of the modern state of containers application....

Prelude Currently, I’m working on the product, built around a large Django monolithic application and a bunch of microservices around it. The codebase is quite huge and has a lot of (tens of thousands) tests, that are normally run in a parallel mode in the CI environment. The CPython and Django versions are a little bit stale (3.8 and 3.2 respectively). For local development purposes, it’s well enough to run a subset of tests in a non-parallel mode or to wait for the whole suite to pass during the CI run, but for one specific use case I had to run a parallel test suite locally....

Here’s a Spotify album to accompany your reading: Tamino - Amir. Disclaimer And below is my framework for conducting code reviews within a large product-oriented software company. I do not intend this to be used as a universal guide by anyone, as situations, companies, and software differ. Most likely reviews in mission-critical software and a new young start-up look different. Consider this as another opportunity to look at what happens inside another person’s head....